5 Must-Watch Documentaries Celebrating Makers and Innovators

Now that we have this
thing called the Internet, no one really cares about the wheel anymore. It's the
sad truth. Poor wheel.

You'd almost feel sorry
for it, if your immediate instinct wasn't to immediately go out and build
something better. It's just the way we're wired: To build tools that make life
easier, more entertaining, more meaningful. It's what separates man from, well,
the wheel. And, hey, the Internet
is great.

Innovation is what makes
us human; a perpetual timeline of creation flowing back to that ape who first
picked up a bone and smashed it against the skull of a sabertooth, to the
strains of Also sprach Zarathustra. From Franklin
to Edison to Jobs, we're doing all we can to make the world a better place, one
idea at a time.

Here are five films -- all available for free streaming on SnagFilms.com -- that celebrate some of man's finest achievements (as well as a few of their most
offbeat):